1 Kings 15:1-7

Abijam Reigns in Judah

1 ¹Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.

2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

3 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and ²his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

4 Nevertheless, for David's sake the LORD his God gave him ³a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem,

5 because ⁴David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, ⁵except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6 ⁶Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

7 ⁷The rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ⁸And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

1 Kings 15:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 15

In this chapter we have a short history of the reign of Abijam, 1Ki 15:1-8 and of Asa, 1Ki 14:9-24, both kings of Judah; and of the reigns of Nadab the son of Jeroboam, and of Baasha, who destroyed his family, both kings of Israel, 1Ki 15:25-34.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 13:1, 2
• 2. 1 Kings 11:4; [ver. 14; 1 Kings 8:61]
• 3. See 1 Kings 11:36
• 4. 1 Kings 9:4; 1 Kings 14:8
• 5. 2 Samuel 11:4, 15; 2 Samuel 12:9
• 6. 1 Kings 14:30
• 7. [2 Chronicles 13:22]
• 8. See 2 Chronicles 13:2-20